From independence to the U.S. Constitution : reconsidering the critical period of American history

From independence to the U.S. Constitution : reconsidering the critical period of American history

Reconsidering the critical period of American history

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.

viii, 274 p. ; 23 cm.

973.31 B798 2022

(OCoLC)1275367797

"This volume re-examines the 1780s in American history, a crucial period when the revolutionary generation worked out new political, economic, and social parameters that came to define the subsequent trajectory of the United States"--Provided by publisher.|Contents: The constitutional consequences of commercial crisis: the role of trade reconsidered in the critical period / Dael A. Norwood -- America's court: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the critical period / Douglas Bradburn -- Abolitionists, Congress, and the Atlantic slave trade: before and after ratification / Nicholas P. Wood -- Federalism on the frontier: secession and loyalty in the Trans-Appalachian West / Susan Gaunt Stearns -- "Such a spirit of innovation": the American Revolution and the creation of states / Christopher R. Pearl -- Something from nothing? Currency and finance in the critical period / Hannah Farber -- An excess of aristocracy: democracy and the fear of aristocratic pin the 1780s / Kevin Butterfield -- Epilogue: turn down the volume! / Johann N. Neem.|Includes bibliographical references and index.|L2022M25

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